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@nepfag @petit @Shamar @xj9

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> Its rich history reaches back to the 1960s with programming environments like Smalltalk and Logo. Notable successes since then include Unix, the spreadsheet, Hypercard, and HTML. And today, newcomers like Zapier, Coda, and Siri Shortcuts are trying their own approaches to automation and dynamic modeling.

> But despite forty years of commercial products, open source, and deep academic work, we have yet to reach an end-user programming utopia. In fact, the opposite: today our computing devices are less programmable and less customizable than ever before.

@Shamar @nepfag @petit @xj9

> Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

-- #SICP

@zensaiyuki @Shamar then fix whatever shitty education system those people have.

people here know what a file system is and it's not like learning what one is is _that_ unintuitive.

and the belief that users and programmers must be strictly divided is fallacious.

should we also not expect them to be able to compare two numbers? or to read?

life hack:

you can just say "websearch" instead of "google"

there is more than one search engine

don't internalize the brands' language

#letzhack podcast with me and @gunstick is now live.

We talked about:
- new #cookies consent judgement
- #Google 's circumvention of Safari cookies blocker judgement
- Microsoft trying to trick you in creating #Cloud accounts instead of local ones in #Windows 10
- @LuxSecurityWeek @hack_lu @MISPProject @BSidesLux #CyberSecurityMonth
- @Snowden's book #permanentrecord
- etc...

http://podcast.ara.lu/blog/2019/10/05/letz-hack-05-10-2019-security-news-cybersecurity-week/

@zensaiyuki @matt @Shufei the year of the Plan 9 desktop is coming

tbh the main attraction of *nix systems is that they make composability available to the end user, not just the developer.

isn't it fucked up when we teach programmers to write composable and modular code, and then make them use those techniques to write closed source monoliths that only compete, and rarely cooperate?

there's some #programming food for thought....

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Author tricks #amazon into distributing union materials to its own employees via book cover #theverge https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20907399/amazon-mike-monteiro-book-cover-labor-union-attention-workers

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@Shamar @nepfag @petit @xj9

- The BASIC era
- The Excel era
- The HyperCard era which degenerated into an HTML era whuch degenerated into the Web Stack
- Here's where we need to create the next era of development usability and composability

Sesame Street, a show created for public access television to help kids from low-income families learn to read and write, is being put being a paywall which will prevent the kids who most need it from accessing it.
The past 50 seasons are also included in that so they can't be streamed anywhere else.

Fuck capitalism.

Pirate Sesame Street.

@niconiconi @xj9 In certain cases, copyleft probably makes things more accessible than the abolition of copyright would.

But on the whole, the main thing stopping you from reverse-engineering that unreadable binary blob and sharing your knowledge is not the obfuscation, it's the copyright.

@clacke @nepfag@pl.smuglo.li @xj9 Hmm. If you are pro-copyleft, are you really sure copyleft is not needed when copyright is abolished? Sure, without copyright, all programs and code can be used for all purposes, but still, nothing prevent someone to sell a huge and unreadable binary blob. In a sense, proprietary software thrives by itself regardless of the existence of copyright thanks to the unreliability of machine code.

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